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The Count of Monte Cristo - Episode 8 (PBS) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Homework as we wrap up our
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  Speaker 1: recent foray into PBS masterpiece. I'm Megan and I'm a
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  Speaker 1: longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark cater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing The Count of Monte Cristo Episode eight.
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  Speaker 1: The last two which originally aired on PBS on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: May tenth, twenty twenty six, and is currently available to
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  Speaker 1: stream on PBS dot Org and the PBS App. Will
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark. I have a couple of emails to read, hey.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Paula emailed about the Count of Monte
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  Speaker 1: Cristo and says, I'd like to give an opinion on
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  Speaker 1: Edmund that kind of disagrees with you. First, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Edmund is a changed man, but I believe he changed
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  Speaker 1: for the better. His fixation on revenge hasn't stopped him
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  Speaker 1: from seeing the good in people. He made good on
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  Speaker 1: anyone he hurt, and we don't yet know what will
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  Speaker 1: happen to the people affected by his revenge. He still
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  Speaker 1: loves Mercedes and she loves him, but they will not
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  Speaker 1: be together again. That I believe is his penance for
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  Speaker 1: that he had to do to get revenge. I think
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  Speaker 1: he leaves France and finds a place where he can
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  Speaker 1: be at ease, free from everything that has haunted him
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  Speaker 1: all these years. Caderousse was never in danger from Edmund.
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  Speaker 1: Edmund doesn't believe in killing. Remember he spent years with
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  Speaker 1: Abby Faria, and he said as much at the execution
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  Speaker 1: he watched in Rome. As to Fernand his whole involvement
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  Speaker 1: in getting Dantes out of the way was because of
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  Speaker 1: his obsession with Mercedes. Also, remember the place of women
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century. How much agency did Mercedes or
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  Speaker 1: any woman in this story have? From Emily In the
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  Speaker 1: different take, she just sents some additional PBS recommendations. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: she says, the Royal Flying Doctor's Service RFDS. She loved
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  Speaker 1: this one so much she started it after a Melbourne
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  Speaker 1: match on Hallmark. A Melboyne match, excuse me, and wanted
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  Speaker 1: something Australian. Oh. This is about a doctor from the
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  Speaker 1: UK who comes to join the RFDS and the medical
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  Speaker 1: and personal stories around the team there. The service gets
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  Speaker 1: to places in the Australian outback that might not get support.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I can tell, the medical is accurate.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up a lot of things because I was
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  Speaker 1: so interested, but really love the characters and their relationships.
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  Speaker 1: I won't give you too much on that, but recommend
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  Speaker 1: at least checking it out to see if it catches you.
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  Speaker 1: Emily also recommends Good Karma Hospital. I watched this last
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  Speaker 1: year and like the characters. Another doctor traveling to a
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  Speaker 1: different locale. This one is in India. I'd rank RFDS
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  Speaker 1: ahead personally, but did enjoy this one. These are both
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  Speaker 1: PBS shows. Interesting. Yeah, I'm going to tell you I
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  Speaker 1: am really impressed with the content on PBS and will
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  Speaker 1: continue to seek out. I mean, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to review anymore PBS or what our plan is,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty impressed. Well. I was talking to my
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  Speaker 1: mom last week and I said, oh, are you watching
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  Speaker 1: The Count of Money Cristo? And she said yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was great and I said, what about the
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  Speaker 1: Foresights And she said yes, and she goes they had
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  Speaker 1: also seen The Foresight Saga, which is also a PBS
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  Speaker 1: show from years ago. It's streaming on Netflix right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I watched part of the first episode and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't grab me, just because I'm like, that's not Joe,
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  Speaker 1: that's not Solmes, but Solmes Damian Lewis, who you will
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  Speaker 1: recognize from Homeland. Oh yeah, Rupert Graves plays young Joe. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, these aren't the right people. I think
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  Speaker 1: I need a little more distance from my Foresights to
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  Speaker 1: watch the Foresight Saga. But the storytelling is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. I absolutely buy Damian Lewis as like a
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  Speaker 1: possessed Yes, yeah, I bet he plays that pretty well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what she was saying, that he was excellent in it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's another option right there. Cool, So why don't
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  Speaker 1: we get into the count of money? Cristo with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 1: Edmund exposes Hallowey's poisoning plot. Midwife tests affies again. It
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  Speaker 1: just says it. Midwife testifies against father at Gaston's murder trial.
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  Speaker 1: Edmund reunites with Mercedes in Marseille, questioning his ability to
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  Speaker 1: love again. Hey, Wendy, what is your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: the season finale with Counta Mine Cysto. This finale had
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  Speaker 1: everything poison, prison, humiliation, and somehow a hallmark ending. My
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  Speaker 1: reversion imprision is, well, looks like I was wrong? Kind
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  Speaker 1: of Were you shocked at the ending? Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: that's not how the book ends. I know, I had
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  Speaker 1: to google. I googled like three episodes ago how does
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  Speaker 1: this end? So I've been holding on to it like
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  Speaker 1: waiting to see, like, where is this going to go?
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  Speaker 1: Where's this going to go? Uh? If a spoiler if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to hear how the actual book ends,
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  Speaker 1: tap tap tap through as I'm gonna mention it right here. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: He's supposed to be with Haiti, Yes, So why didn't
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  Speaker 1: they do it that way? Well, my guess is they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have enough time to develop the character of Haiti
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  Speaker 1: to make her someone that it would make sense for
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  Speaker 1: Edward to be Edmund to be with romantically. Right, That's
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  Speaker 1: my only guess. Apparently all the different adaptations have a
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  Speaker 1: different ending. We'll get into our thoughts on this one.
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  Speaker 1: I think this was appropriate for this, but I find
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  Speaker 1: it very interesting that they take such a different tact
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  Speaker 1: from the writer's ending. It's a completely different choice. Agree,
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you I was police because that's
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  Speaker 1: what I was hoping for. Yeah, it's a nice bow
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  Speaker 1: on the series to have them together, for sure. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching this on Mother's Day and I was
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  Speaker 1: watching it alone, and my family decided they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: come and hang out with me because it was mother Day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, sh I need everybody to be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I know. My husband kept coming in, he is like,
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  Speaker 1: do you need anything. I'm like, I need you do
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  Speaker 1: shut Villefort his blight. All right, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: we liked. All right, Well, let's talk about Villefort. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I have a hard time in the meeting, but I
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  Speaker 1: actually felt a little bit of empathy for him. Oh
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  Speaker 1: me too, Okay, I didn't. I didn't think we'd actually
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  Speaker 1: get there because for Danglars and for I didn't even care.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't care about there. They didn't kill a child, right,
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  Speaker 1: So there were two scenes when he comes upon and
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  Speaker 1: sees his wife and now his young boy dead poisoned
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  Speaker 1: by I mean Eloise, Heloise whatever her name is, like,
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  Speaker 1: she obviously poisoned both of them, herself and the kid, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's my question. Oh, I think yes, But I also
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  Speaker 1: think there's room for the boy to have like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: across the drink. Oh, and maybe she was like because
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  Speaker 1: she loved him. Yeah, so, but she was bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bad human. She'd been willing to do anything
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  Speaker 1: for money, so including sending her stepdaughter to prison for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of her life. So I can't decide. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those things. Is this how it
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  Speaker 1: happens in the book? I don't know? And do we
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  Speaker 1: get more information about her motivation in the book. But
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  Speaker 1: I can't decide if I believe that she poisoned him
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  Speaker 1: or what came first, a chicken or the egg? Yeah
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  Speaker 1: got you? But yes, I felt bad for Villefort in
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  Speaker 1: that moment when he is overcome. Yes, and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to it. But Edmund coming in and seeing
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  Speaker 1: that scene too, I think is poignant. I'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: it when we get to Edmund. But I felt bad
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  Speaker 1: for him here, and then when he's been exposed in
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  Speaker 1: parliament for his bad doings, I didn't feel bad for
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  Speaker 1: him here, but I liked that he took accountability and
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  Speaker 1: says no one is above the law, including me, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what he has been telling his wife this whole
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  Speaker 1: time too. You know, there was like some softening here,
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  Speaker 1: like he wasn't this cartoon villain to me anymore. He
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  Speaker 1: did bad things and he was watching his life like
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  Speaker 1: collapse around him. And I feel a little sad for him,
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  Speaker 1: sure so, But I think that's like the complexity of
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  Speaker 1: it all is what made the finale so good and
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  Speaker 1: made me as if you were a little conflicted about
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  Speaker 1: all the revenge stuff. Yeah, and I think the Villafort
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  Speaker 1: story contrasts with Don Glars, because you're right, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel Don Glars is the one I feel least badly about.
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  Speaker 1: He was bad in many ways. He was willing to
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  Speaker 1: sell his daughter's happiness to the highest bidder because it
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  Speaker 1: would benefit him. And when he ends up in prison
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  Speaker 1: and reads that letter from edmunds so petty, I freaking
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  Speaker 1: loved it. Oh, I loved I mean it looks just
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  Speaker 1: like it's different prison, but it looks just like or
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  Speaker 1: Edmund held and he throws it out the window. I
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  Speaker 1: just think, yeah, you deserve this, Like you broke the law.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're going to go to prison for it. Edmund
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have to engineer that. No, I know God
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  Speaker 1: him caught. Yeah, yeah, and I had that one. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is good. Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: And it was funny too because when Dunglaar reads that
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  Speaker 1: letter and he's like bastard and he's like screaming, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, bro, this is on you, this is
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  Speaker 1: on you. Here, Bill doesn't see part in it at all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Edmund. Okay, this is what
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  Speaker 1: elevated the finale for me because up until this point,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen Edman be believe. He operates like he believes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everything is deserved, like he's out for justice, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then he comes upon seeing Villefort over Villefort's dead child.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the child's name, Edward, isn't it that
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  Speaker 1: sounds right? This is where finally, because Edmund goes, God
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  Speaker 1: help me, and he gives me. Yeah, he he realized
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  Speaker 1: what has has happened. He I think he sees his
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  Speaker 1: poison on the ground, whether or not, yes, but he
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  Speaker 1: knows what has happened, right, And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: finally Edmund looks horrified at what this has all become,
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  Speaker 1: like this is all part of his doing And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, because, honestly, the last episode, in this one too,
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  Speaker 1: I was starting to feel like the dick towards Edmund,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about it and my wishes. But here
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  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, finally, like I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: go back to what like Haiti had told him in
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  Speaker 1: like last episode of like at what cost? At what costs?
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing all this? And now he's like, oh, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I inadvertently killed a child. Does it make him equally
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  Speaker 1: as bad as Villefort? And that's nan And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where I land on that. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: I land on that. I think it's I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it makes him as bad as Villefort buried a child alive. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: his intent was to kill that baby. Y, it's terrible,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Edmund never had any intent for the children
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  Speaker 1: to be harmed. It was and I or Valentine or
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  Speaker 1: so and so or so. Yeah. Now Valentine at least
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  Speaker 1: has a happy ending, but at least when he sees
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  Speaker 1: that he has enough of a realization. None of these
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  Speaker 1: other men get to that point. Maybe Villefort now, but
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  Speaker 1: his life has been ruined. I mean, it took all
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  Speaker 1: of this right, he even Villefort even had a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a slow start to get Valentine out of Jude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: exactly like it took him. I did, like how he
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  Speaker 1: coldly goes to Hallowe's and he was like, I note
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  Speaker 1: what you did, Yeah, and presents her with the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought he'd actually suspected her in the last episode,
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  Speaker 1: because do you remember him like looking through drawers and stuff? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do, And I thought, is that was that an
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  Speaker 1: editing mistake? Because I thought he assumed it was her
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  Speaker 1: or suspected it was her in the last episode. But
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  Speaker 1: then this episode he seemed genuinely like surprised when Edmund
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  Speaker 1: comes to him and is like, oh your wife, Like
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  Speaker 1: there's a witness to your wife going into my laboratory.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he did. Maybe he seem surprised about the evidence. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well part of me I was like, oh, well, am
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  Speaker 1: I mistaken? Was he looking through Valentine's stuff? Yeah? Last week?
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  Speaker 1: I think both times, so I always had hidden it
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  Speaker 1: because oh that's why read is it? Hell? Yeah, Gotteine's room,
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  Speaker 1: so it could be found there, got it? Yes, because
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  Speaker 1: that room is not Hallowi's. That's a small room. You're right,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. After Edmund leaves Villefort's home, he has one
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  Speaker 1: of his anxiety moments and then he tosses his drugs
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  Speaker 1: from the coach, and that's one of those Edmond redemption
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  Speaker 1: moments where he's like, no more of this, Uh huh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna rebuild our life. I agree with that,
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  Speaker 1: but I just needed more information. I would have loved
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  Speaker 1: some sort of internal dialogue or something of what made
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  Speaker 1: him decide to like stop relying on whatever this drug
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  Speaker 1: was that was helping him. I laughed because it was
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  Speaker 1: a hallmark ending. Absolutely love. I just yeah, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of went like, oh yeah when it ended. But I
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  Speaker 1: am happy that him and Mercedes, Like is vague, Like
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be together? Yes? I think so too. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's vague. You know. It's like the pull away back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shot, and they're like together and they're silhouette
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. It is beautiful. It was beautifully done. But
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, here it is. I got the
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  Speaker 1: ending I wanted. I'm curious if other people who have
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  Speaker 1: read the book, who know seen other versions of it,
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  Speaker 1: were disappointed in the ending and this one. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's the right ending for this show. If you were
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  Speaker 1: to have left and they show him writing up to
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  Speaker 1: Haiti's home, I'd be like, what the heck? We don't
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  Speaker 1: see a development of a relationship at all for them.
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  Speaker 1: That would not be earned. They built the story where
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  Speaker 1: he was very much still in love with her and
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  Speaker 1: she was in love with him, And you're surprised by
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  Speaker 1: that because you've been saying all for eight episodes like
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  Speaker 1: you were kind of like, I it's a hard read.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's I'm mad at her, loved her,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought he couldn't forgive her for moving on.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was the right choice for the story
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  Speaker 1: they were telling season two? Can he forgive her? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Did they set this up for a season two? I
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  Speaker 1: know this was made a while ago, right last year,
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  Speaker 1: but okay, right, hard for that season two? Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: want to see what they're life. And yes, we made
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  Speaker 1: seasons of The Handmaid's Tale then the book covered, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all along we've been like, we know this
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  Speaker 1: isn't one and done like mini series because like that's
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  Speaker 1: where the book ends. But could we see their life
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  Speaker 1: life after revenge? Life? The Count of Monte Cristo dot
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  Speaker 1: life after Reubrange, I don't think it's that interesting in him,
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  Speaker 1: and hellow he's him and Mercedes Lemon and Marseille. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but then we got like Danglars and in jail for
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen years, plotting for the next his revenge, Yakapo
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  Speaker 1: going back and collecting it, Ollie, Yeah, what'd you think
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  Speaker 1: about that? I actually liked. I liked the Yakapo Goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it had a little bit of humor. Edmund's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when the money stops coming, you'll know I'm dead,
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  Speaker 1: and Yako's like, don't die too soon. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was sweet, and I thought I thought he did right
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  Speaker 1: by them. I thought he did too. Anyway, I would
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  Speaker 1: love a season two. Let's take of their break and
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  Speaker 1: we'll come back to talk. Oh wishes? All right, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: what did you wish for? Well? Like I said at
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  Speaker 1: one point, Edmond really gives me the ick. It's just destructive,
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  Speaker 1: like what he's doing, and I'm like, how can I
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  Speaker 1: continue to root for this man, who I do think
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  Speaker 1: is justified having his life kind of destroyed, But like
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  Speaker 1: he it's just such just ripple effect and innocent lives
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  Speaker 1: are being lost. I think it helps to the end.
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  Speaker 1: They're terrible. The reminder of the Villafort. It's unforgivable what
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  Speaker 1: he did to the baby. And then Don glars just
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  Speaker 1: like cheerfully, being like, you know, write me a check
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  Speaker 1: for off my daughter, give me my money. It just
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  Speaker 1: they're grows. I know, I know, I know, But I
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: got to mention I love Eugenie bouncing. Oh that was great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cuts her hair, she and Louise leave. Did you think
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  Speaker 1: it was a little bit funny, Like obviously she took
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  Speaker 1: the money from her mom that her mom had, but
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  Speaker 1: they showed that quick little scene where she's like, look
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  Speaker 1: at her money, like, you know, it was not needed,
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  Speaker 1: but I did. I didn't enjoy that too. And the
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  Speaker 1: count of Spottis is like maybe you guys it was
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  Speaker 1: like all funny, like that was funny that it was funny.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look at you. Yeah, there's some
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  Speaker 1: letters go be in the opera. Yeah, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she gonna go like live as a man, so she
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  Speaker 1: and maybe those three friends and live together. But they're yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she and Louise are running off to Gayeah. Okay, back
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  Speaker 1: to our wishes. Yeah. I liked it. I think I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: already talked about most of my wishes, Like we talked
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  Speaker 1: about the end the Hallmark Anddy and it was a
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  Speaker 1: little hokey, but I like, I still liked it, and
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  Speaker 1: I do wish we got more site into Edmund's internal
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  Speaker 1: transformation and we already talked about that before. And when
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  Speaker 1: he throws out the drugs like I need yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I need something else there. I thought some of our
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  Speaker 1: moments at the end were rushed. Yeah, most of our
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  Speaker 1: moments at the end, quite frankly, were rushed. Donglars is
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  Speaker 1: maybe the only one that I feel gets full coverage.
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  Speaker 1: I even think like the helloase Edward Villefort ending is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like, I guess we don't need the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: details of how it happened. We just know that this
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: is Villefort's punishment, and you know Edmund has shown up
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to be like by the way it was me. Yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and then he's like I'm getting this enough, don't I
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: don't need that moment Max and Valentine. It's such like
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a quick, so fast Okay, I guess that he is
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: all I needed to know, but it's just like close
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that loop goodbye. Yeah, I'd be happy now. I think
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I had read too that he leaves a lot of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: his fortune to them. Edmund, Oh in the book, that's nice. Yeah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: that's nice because Villefor ain't gonna have nothing now right.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: That's it. There's just some moments that I thought, Oh,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: we're just real wrapping all this up. M check check check.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Do you think that's enough of a punishment that Villefort
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: receives Hallowise and Edwards have passed, Like, do you think
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: we need to see him go to trials? Yeah, we
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: don't really see like his we don't really see, right,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen with guest On No, yeah, no,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And we don't really see what happens with Villefort, like
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: he's just living like alone now, we don't. The last
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: we see of him is he's holding his dead's up. Right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: That was it. So there's a little bit of an
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: open endedness with season two. There's Yeah, you know who
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: got the worst for Nan, We got it the worst, right,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: don't you think? Well, no, Danglars because he's in prison. No, Villefort,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: because of his son, fernand took it upon himself to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: not face the consequences of his act. True, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: his consequences would have been he would have gone to prison,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: but his wife child would have still been living. But
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Fernand couldn't live with the humiliation of that. Okay, So
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: on the flip side, like who has the most satisfying
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: downfall of the three of them? I think Doanglars? Yeah,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: because his wife was bad too, and she goes down
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: with him and his daughter has a happy ending, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: so I think it's the one you can root for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the most. Yeah. Do you think Mercedes has earned that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: moment at the end with Edward? Like, oh sorry and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Edward and Edmund is too much? You think she's earned
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: his acceptance at the end, his coming to find her.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: There's not. There hasn't been enough time. They're telling us
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a story that we never saw. When they said the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: woman goes and looks out over the castle d'Eve chateau.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yuess it did. In episode one, she was like standing
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: there on the thing watching. Yeah, the day he leaves. Yeah, fair, fair,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But at the end we see that they've gone there. Yes, yes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you're right. I'm laughing at that pronunciation. No, no, because
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the name. I'm laughing at the name because when my
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: daughter was watching it, I was watching with subtitles and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: she's like, dilf she just thought that was really funny
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: because you know melf and yeah, no, I get it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, it's French, leave it alone. Yeah. Overall,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a very enjoyable series. Me too,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Me too, And I have to okay, what did you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: like better? The Foresights or The Count of Monte crist
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I did too. Yeah, yeah it was good. It's really good.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Shouting from the rooftops. People, you gotta watch The Count
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of Monte Cristo on PBS. Do it really good? Do it? Hey,
• 21:40
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